x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. The code
is written by Laurent Aimar, Eric Petit(OS X), Min Chen (vfw/nasm),
Justin Clay(vfw), Måns Rullgård and Loren Merritt from scratch. It is
released under the terms of the GPL license.
This package is in tainted repository as the video encoder may be covered
by software patents.